Monday, July 05, 2010

Homestyle Favorites Made Meatless

Those of you with my second book might notice my friend Renee Pottle's book Homestyle Favorites Made Meatless listed in the Recommended Resources. I'm happy to announce that the book is now available at her website, Wine Barrel Gourmet, where she also sells mixes for healthy soups, pasta dishes, wholegrain breads, and more.

Renee's latest book is all about cooking with meat substitutes. I've been paging through my copy; the recipes are mostly old-fashioned favorites that you may have grown up with. Think hearty, down-home meals like ChickN and Dumplings, Sweet and Spicy Chops, Burgundy Beef, Salisbury Steak, and Fish Tacos, all made healthier and meat-free.

The book also contains a helpful list of some of the different meat substitutes available, and lets you choose which one you would like to use in any given recipes. For example, options for pork chops include Cedar Lake Meatless Chops, Field Roast Deli Slices, Worthington Choplets, or baked tofu. Cooks can take their pick and follow the recipe from there, so you're always able to find a vegan choice. Vegan recipes are noted, and many more can easily be made vegan by using nondairy milk products.

Check out this picture of Renee's Paella, one of the "Meatless ChickN Favorites". Looks yummy!

Also, I just noticed if you order the book from her website you'll get a free bonus: "The Meatless Pantry Checklist" and "Meatless Pantry Creations - Design Your Own Soup, Stir-Fry and more!" A PDF version is even available.

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Being from the UK, Ive not seen any of those brands before and I would love to dish my vegan up a 'pork' chop but a problem we are noticing over here is the sudden increased use of yeast extract as a flavouring in so many vegan substitutes.

I have a yeast intolerance so it's making the vegan meets carnivore foodfest something of a trial involving vast amount of ingredient scrutiny on every shopping trip.

Dear Jennifer,I´m currently debating whether to give ¨The Vegan Lunchbox¨ as a present for my mom´s 50th birthday. There are two cons to this: my mom's english is not very good, and from a brief search in google books I've found that there is no Hebrew translation (which might be a good idea for the future, as being a vegan is very common here, in Israel). This means we have to translate recipes.The second problem is that someone told me that the book is mostly leaning towards children's meal ideas. I don't know if that's true, and this is the reason I came to your blog. Unfortunately I have discovered it problematic to navigate as there are no sections, or tags. These could have been very helpful. Nevertheless when I read the book description on google books I was exhilarated, on account of the nutrition tables and the fact that you try to avoid dairy p. Chances are I'm going to purchase it. I just need to ask mom how would she like it (which spoils the surprise, but I see no other way).I hope this was a constructive comment.Efrat.

That is actually lovely...because many are trying to go healthy and opting for veg food these days.It makes the meal lighter to digest keeping the nutrition value same it is great way to go on a health spree.Diet Plans